Detection of previously undetected leprosy cases in a defined rural and urban area of Maharashtra, Western India

Leprosy Review

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-33

  Shetty, Vanaja Prabhakar ^a   Thakar, Uday Haribhau ^b   D'Souza, Etheldreda ^c   Ghate, Sunil Dattatray ^a   Arora, Swaran ^a   Doshi, Riddhi Prakash ^a   Wakade, Anju Vilas ^a   Thakur, Donna Vasant ^c  

^a FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b Kushth Nivaran Samiti ^*  (India)

^c Lok Seva Sangam   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISABILITY SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INDIA; LEPROSY EPIDEMIOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIBACILLARY LEPROSY; PAUCIBACILLARY LEPROSY; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; LEPROSY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 65949083321     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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